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The Native Bush of New Zealand is unbelievably dense and is among the oldest in the world - some as ancient as dinosaurs!! |
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Blue Garden
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ICE CREAM
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It must be New Zealand's natural beauty that inspires hundreds of roadside artisans and thousands of ice cream vendors to produce some of the most inspiring works I have ever seen. ;) |
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THERMAL WONDERS
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| The Thermal Trail is a winding section of the highway whose scenic side roads all lead to geysers, bubbling mud pits, and unstable lands that reek of eggs! :) The pictures around this text were taken in a Maori village set in an area pronounced FEKA-REVA-REVA. |
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| The pictures below were taken at my favourite Thermal site (where I stepped to a crater's edge!). |
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| In real life... the mud pit above would be bubbling and blurping while the colour of the small lake below would an even more vibrant, seemily plugged-in, Scope-like blue. |
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ART DECO TOWNS
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| Art Deco is a style whose popularity peaked in the 1920s. How is that ball suspended there?! |
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There is a town in New Zealand where all the buildings conform to art deco motif. Street lamps, storefronts, fountains, Fire hydrants, McDonalds? How did this happen? Well, a fire leveled the city IN the 1920's, so when students were called in to help rebuild, they applied the most modern design ideas - to everything! Since then, city building codes enforce the consistent 80 year old idiom. |
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OVER TO THE SOUTH ISLAND
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Last view of the north island: the capitol city of Wellington.
And the first view of the south island.
It was a long ferry ride (over 3 hours) - you cannot see both islands at the same time!
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| McDonald's Down Under... |
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| To the left, the offspring of McD's and Starbucks - super size lattes. And above, the McMuffin on the right is fortified with numerous enhancers. Lookit the SIZE of it!! IIIIIIIIt's MASSIVE! |
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